Academic Commentary: 'Individual Giving and Philanthropy'

Collective Philanthropy: Describing and Modeling the Ecology of Giving

Reflective of income and wealth distributions, philanthropic gifting appears to follow an approximate power-law size distribution as measured by the size of gifts received by individual institutions. We explore the ecology of gifting by analysing data sets of individual gifts for a diverse group of institutions dedicated to education, medicine, art, public support, and religion. We find that th...

Giving Circles in Asia: Newcomers to the Asian Philanthropy Landscape

Individual Preferences for Giving

We utilize graphical representations of Dictator Games which generate rich individual-level data. Our baseline experiment employs budget sets over feasible payoff-pairs. We test these data for consistency with utility maximization, and we recover the underlying preferences ∗The results reported here were previously distributed in three different papers titled “Individual Preferences for Giving,...

Commentary: Academic surgery and global health.

For low and middle countries, the local surgeons and physicians should dictate, direct, and deliver the care for their people; therefore, their priorities are paramount. We have an opportunity to help, advise, and support their efforts and perhaps enable improvements in the timely delivery of basic care. Although we cannot ‘‘fix’’ their problems, we do have the opportunity to partner with our c...

Individual Citizenship Behavior: The Mediator between Teachers’ Academic Optimism and Students’ Academic Achievement

Individual Citizenship Behavior: The Mediator between Teachers’ Academic Optimism and Students’ Academic Achievement     H. Abbaasiyaan, Ph.D.* M. Rezaaveisi**   It is assumed that students’ academic achievement can improve if teachers’ academic optimism increases. However, this relationship seems to be mediated by individual citizenship behavior. Wi...